MBA515 Accounting for Mgt Decisions

for F2P 2012

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Course

MBA 515 Accounting for Mgt Decisions

Semester

F2P 2012 DL

Faculty

Jirkovsky, Dennis J.

Title

Adjunct Faculty

Degrees/Certificates

MBA - Rockhurst UniversityBA Accounting - Missouri Western State UniversityCertified Public Accountant - State of Missouri

Garrison, Noreen and Brewer, Managerial Accounting, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2011, 14th Edition, ISBN 978-1-121-17070-4 from the Park University Bookstore (this book is about $50.00 less than the hard copy but it may be difficult to resell.)

Additional Resources:
Microsoft Excel would be helpful in doing the problems.

There are no other additional resources planned for this course.

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Educational Teaching Philosophy: As a decade has passed since I first began online courses. My online teaching philosophy continues to evolve. At the core of this is the student. I believe in student centered learning.

In our class, you will mainly engage in student-centered, interactive activities on the discussion board. You will probably participate more in this class than you have in a face-to-face course. Research shows the more actively you participate, the more you learn. To facilitate your participation, you will be able to utilize the eCollege asynchronous discussion boards. You will be able to access the eCollege synchronous Chat Room. I am usually online several times a day. You can also reach me through the eCollege email system. You can expect a 24 hour turn around on your assignments submitted through the eCollege Drop Box.

With the right tools, every student can learn and be a success. I work to establish a learning environment that allows you to grow. I try to construct assignments that are clear and creative. The heart of this is providing a number of opportunities for you the online student to learn. These tools include our eCollege Discussion Boards, Doc Sharing, Drop Box, Email, and Journals.

My goal as your facilitator/teacher is to create an online class that will stimulate your learning, expand your critical analysis abilities, and further develop your imagination.

Interaction requires that you keep up with course material and maintain an open mind. I will work to establish a learning environment that allows you to grow and construct assignments that are clear and creative. I will provide prompt, detailed, and personalized feedback.

These core learning outcomes will be measured in our grading rubrics which will be attached to the syllabus.

You will be able to achieve and demonstrate these core learning outcomes through the use of the eCollege Discussion Boards, Email, Chat Room, Doc Sharing, Drop Box, and Journal.

By applying effective learning strategies, I can act as a facilitator which is the most effective tool in the learning development of students. I believe in maintaining a classroom and teaching lessons in a clear, organized, and thorough manner so that the learning process is sequential and interconnected. By doing so, this online class will have the opportunity to learn both independently and collaboratively.

Learning Outcomes:Core Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate a basic knowledge of managerial accounting.

Analyze an internal management issue and determine the accounting impact on the decision making process.

Explain the importance of managerial accounting in the decision-making process within the business.

Identify current managerial accounting issues and how they affect the business environment.

Formulate and analyze a Statement of Cash Flows.

Analyze the financial statements of a business.

Develop an Operational, Financial and Capital budget for a business.

Explain the role of responsibility accounting and its implications for the Manager.

Measure the performance of various segments of the business.

Instructor Learning Outcomes

Analyze the principles fixed and variable costs and predict future trends using by various methodologies to include the high low method and regression analysis.

Calculating and prepare financial reports using the variable costing approach and the reports to analyze the cost-volume-profit relationship.

Prepare and analyze a statement of cash flows using the indirect method.

Calculate and analyze product cost by using process costing, job-order costing or activity based costing methodologies.

Prepare budgets using standard cost and analyze the variances from budget for direct material, direct labor and all overhead; prepare the future financial statements resulting from the budget preparation process.

Compute and analyze the return on investment and the residual income, and identify the effects of changes in sales, expenses and assets on these measures.

Evaluate the acceptability of an investment project using the net present value, internal rate of return and the payback method along with the impact of taxes on the decision.

Core Assessment:

Class Assessment:Your grade will be determined by your work on the following: (1) Graded Homework assigned weekly; (2) Discussion Board: Responses to weekly threaded discussion questions as well as participation in the Discussion Board; (3) Group Work for Group Project (4) Mid Term Exam; (5) Final Exam. All submissions will be graded on relevance, comprehensiveness, specificity, clarity and analytical skills, as well as writing skills.

Weekly Threaded Discussions:(Weeks 1 through 8)

On a weekly basis, questions will be posted that require your active response and participation.

Responses should be long enough to thoroughly answer the questions or problems. All outside sources must be cited accordingly and per APA.

Do not copy and paste an entire article or web page. Summarize important points and cite accordingly.

Please avoid using sources such as Wikipedia.com, ask.com, mba.com, investopedia.com, and as such. You may use these sites for reference on specific topic but they are not considered reliable source. Please use business and peer review publications via Park University Online Library.

70/30 Rule: When you answer the discussion questions (DQs), it is expected that you contribute at least 70% when completing the assignment and support your answers with research (30% direct quote). In other words you need to provide your own input by either explaining your readings, paraphrasing other readings, providing examples to elaborate the readings, etc. while citing your sources according to APA.

Substantive and high value postings are expected. Please check for grammar and spelling before

posting your message. All outside sources MUST be cited accordingly. Additional research and providing real world examples are necessary.

To receive full participation credit you will be expected to contribute to the class discussion in a substantive way at least TWO out of SEVEN days each week.

“Substantive” postings relate to real world issues, build on the ideas of others, suggest alternative ideas, and even constructively disagree with other ideas. Simply posting “I agree” will not be considered “substantive” participation.

Grading:

Grading:

Assessments

Point each

Number of Items

Possible points in course(weighted average)

Percentage(%) of final Grade

Homework

25

8

200

20

Discussion/Participation

20

8

160

16

Term Project

100

1

100

10

Mid-term Exam

270

1

270

27

Final Exam

270

1

270

27

Total

17

1000

100%

Grade Scale

Points Letter

901-1000 A

801-900 B

701-800 C

601-700 D

0-600 F

Late Submission of Course Materials:Late homework will be penalized one letter grade for each day late. After one week no points will be available. Late Discussion/Participation CANNOT be made up.

Classroom Rules of Conduct:Very simple: I expect college level work and conduct.

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Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person's ideas, interpretation, words (even a few), data, statements, illustration or creative work and their presentation as one's own. An offense against plagiarism constitutes a serious academic misconduct. Although offenses against academic integrity can manifest themselves in various ways, the most common forms of offenses are plagiarism and cheating. Plagiarism goes beyond the copying of an entire article. It may include, but is not limited to: copying a section of an article or a chapter from a book, reproduction of an art work, illustration, cartoon, photograph and the like and passing them off as one's own. Copying from the Internet is no less serious an offense than copying from a book or printed article, even when the material is not copyrighted.

Plagiarism also includes borrowing ideas and phrases from, or paraphrasing, someone else's work, published or unpublished, without acknowledging and documenting the source. Acknowledging and documenting the source of an idea or phrase, at the point where it is utilized, is necessary even when the idea or phrase is taken from a speech or conversation with another person.

Students must participate in an academically related activity on a weekly basis in order to be marked present in an online class. Examples of academically-related activities include but are not limited to: contributing to an online discussion, completing a quiz or exam, completing an assignment, initiating contact with a faculty member to ask a course related question, or using any of the learning management system tools. Park University 2012-2013 Graduate Catalog Page 26

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Additional Information:

Rubric

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